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Genova, September 1 2004
Routes to Colloidal Gel Formation
CCP2004
In collaboration with S. Bulderyev, E. La Nave, A. Moreno, S. Mossa, I. Saika-Voivod, P. Tartaglia, E. Zaccarelli
Thanks to the organizers and to Carlo Pierleone
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Outline and Motivations
Brief Review of Short-Range Attractive Colloidal Glass (asymmetric colloid-polymer mixtures)
How to model disordered arrested states at low packing fraction (gels)
Routes: Interrupted phase separation (irreversible gels) Long Range Repulsive interactions (reversible) Geometrical constraints (reversible)
Differences between gel and glasses
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Depletion Interactions:A (C. Likos) Cartoon
V(r )
r
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MCT IDEAL GLASS LINES (PY) - SQUARE WELL MODEL - CHANGING
PRE-63-011401-2001
A4
V(r)
A3
Large Small
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F. Sciortino, Nat. Mat. 1, 145 (2002).
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confirmed by experiments Mallamace et al. PRL (2000)
Pham et al. Science (2002) Eckert and Bartsch PRL (2002)
and simulations Puertas et al PRL (2002)Zaccarelli et al PRE (2002)
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Pham et al 2004
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Phase Diagram for Square Well (3%)
RepulsiveGlass
AttractiveGlassLiquid+Gas Coexistence
A3
Spinodal AHS (Miller&Frenkel)
Iso-diffusivity
lines
Percolation Line
Spinodal (and Baxter)
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Virial Scaling in the dynamics:
Toward the Baxter Limit
G. Foffi and C. De Michele,preprint
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Gelation as a result of phase separation
(interrupted by the glass transition)
T T
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The quest for the ideal (thermoreversible) gel….model1) Long Living reversible bonds
2)No Phase Separation3) No Crystallization
Are 1 and 2 mutually exclusive ?LowTemperatur
e
Condensation
Long Bond Lifetime
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Surface Tension
How to stay at low T without condensation ?
Reasons for condensation (Frank, Hill, Coniglio)
Physical Clusters at low T
if the infinite cluster is the lowest (free)energy state
How to make the surface as stable as the bulk (or more)?
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Short Range Attraction
Long Range Repulsion
Competition Between Short Range Attraction and Long Range Repulsion
FS et al, PRL 2004
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Groenewold
and Kegel
Upper Limit
Optimal Size
How to make negative ?
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lowering T
Increasing packing fraction
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Geometric Constraint: Maximum Valency
SW if # of bonded particles <= Nmax
HS if # of bonded particles > Nmax
V(r)
r
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Phase Diagram
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Bond Lifetime.. Several more decades..
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Gel vs Glass - MSD
T=0.1
Typical Glass Value
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Gel vs Glass: Density Autocorrelation Functions
fq
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Fq gel vs glass
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Summary….
• Designig Thermoreversible Gels: •Models with small surface tension (charged colloids, sticky points)
• A simple model for thermoreversible gel
• Gels and Glasses:•Differences in localization length •Differences in experimental observables
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Ground State Energy Known !
It is possible to equilibrate at low T !
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How to stay at low T without condensation ?
Reasons for condensation (Frank, Hill, Coniglio)
Physical Clusters at low T
if the infinite cluster is the lowest energy state
How to make the surface more stable than the bulk ?
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Thermodynamics in the IS formalism Stillinger-Weber
F(T)=-T Sconf(<eIS>, T) +fbasin(<eIS>,T)
with
fbasin(eIS,T)= eIS+fvib(eIS,T)and
Sconf(T)=kBln[(<eIS>)]
Basin depth and shape
Number of explored basins
Free energy
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It is possible to calculate exactly the basin free energy !
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Viscosity and Diffusivity: Arrhenius
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Stoke-Einstein Relation